Gorringes Book inc House & Gardens weekly Sale - Monday 16th October 2023

° ° Verne, Jules - Five Weeks in a Balloon: a voyage of exploration and discovery in Central Africa ....2nd edition. 35 wood engraved plates and n...

° ° Bible - An early (1620) Authorised Version (the KJB.). The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament, and the New: newly translated out of the...

° ° Rouse, James - The Beauties and Antiquities of the County of Sussex....from original drawings taken on the spot....accompanied by historical a...

° ° Park, John James - The Topography and Natural History of Hampstead....(2nd edition), republished with additions and corrections. large scale f...

° ° Shakespeare, William - The Plays of William Shakespeare, from the correct edition of Isaac Reed....12 vols. engraved frontispieces (in 9 vols....

° ° Farley, John - The London Art of Cookery and Housekeeper’s Complete Assistant, 8th edition, 8vo, rebound cloth, with 12 copper-engraved plates...

° ° Glanvil[l] - Joseph - Saducismus Triumphatus: or, Full and Plain Evidence concerning Witches and Apparitions, in 2 parts, in one vol, calf, re...

° ° [Defoe, Daniel] - The History of the Devil: Ancient and Modern in two parts, [part one only], 2nd edition, 8vo, calf rebacked, A.Law, W. Mille...

° ° Shaw, Henry - The Encyclopedia of Ornament. First Edition. coloured pictorial title and 59 other plates (5 coloured); later 19th cent. green h...

° ° Pullman, Philip - His Dark Materials, 3 vols., First Editions - Northern Lights; The Subtle Knife; the Amber Spyglass. (first vol. inscribed b...

° ° Fallon, Tom - Craftsmen in Crime: a continental casebook. portrait frontis.; publisher's gilt lettered cloth, cr. 8vo. 1956; Fallon, Tom - The...

° ° Eliot, George - new / stereotyped edition, 7 vols. with the original illustrations; contemp. half calf and marbled boards, gilt decorated and ...

° ° Chapin, Anna Alice - The Everyday and Now-A-Day Fairy Book. pictorial title and 8 coloured plates (by Jessie Willcox Smith); publisher's cloth...

° ° Dickens, Charles - (Collected Edition), 15 vols. (only, ex16). with the original illustrations; contemp. half calf and marbled boards, gilt de...

° ° The Song of Solomon. In coloured plates by Zeev Raban...(3rd improved edition). pictorial and decorated title (English) and a mounted coloured...

° ° Burton, Sir Richard Francis - the Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night. With introduction explanatory notes of the manners and customs of Mos...

° ° Timlin, William M. - The Ship That Sailed to Mars. A Fantasy, 4to, original vellum backed boards, with ragged d/js and 48 colour plates and 48...

° ° Dickens, Charles - The Works, 18 vols, 8vo, half red morocco, Chapman Hall, London, nd. ...[more]

° ° Austen, Jane - The Novels of Jane Austen, Winchester edition, 10 vols, 8vo, half green morocco by Bayntum-Riviere, John Grant, Edinburgh, 1905...

° ° Thackeray, William Makepeace - The Works, 26 vols, 8vo, half red morocco with marbled boards, Smith, Elder & Co., London 1891. ...[more]

° ° The Royal Illustrated Atlas, of Modern Geography ...pictorial engraved title and 74 coloured maps and plans (many pictorial, some d-page); pub...

° ° Berry, William - County Geneologies, Pedigrees of the Families in the County of Sussex, small folio, half green morocco, binding scuffed, Sher...

° ° Marieschi, Michael - Magnifcentiories Selectioresque Urbis Venetiarum Prospectus....First Edition. engraved pictorial / portrait title and 8 ...

Two non-consecutive vellum leaves from an illuminated bible, containing elements of St Paul’s epistles to the Galatians, Ephesians, Thessalonians ...

° ° Toman, Rolf (editor) Baroque: theatrum mundi. The world as a work of art. many coloured illus. throughout; publisher's coloured pictorial boa...

° ° Blackwood, Lady Alicia - Scutari, the Bosphorus and the Crimea. Twenty Four Sketches....2 vols. pictorial lithographed titles and 19 lithogra...

Quitclaim, 8 January 1506John Litton, rector of Whittington (Whityngton) in Derbyshire, brother and heir of Thomas Litton, the son and heir of the...

Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965), poet, critic and publisher, Criterion, 24 Russell Square, London WC1; letter to Peter Winckworth ‘Dear Winckwor...

° ° Betjeman, Sir John (1906-1984), poet laureate, writer and broadcaster; three letters to Peter Winckworth i. The Mead, Wantage; received 9 Apri...

Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850), prime minister, and others 1830-1902i. Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850), prime minister, free frank cover addressed to Mis...

The Cox family of Farningham in Kent, 1726-1865i. Letters of administration (Prerogative Court of Canterbury) of the estate of Mary Cox of Eynsfor...

Post-revolutionary France, 1827-1854i. Jean Leopold Nicolas Frederic Cuvier (1769-1832), French naturalist and zoologist; letter to [René-Nicolas ...

Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), first consul of France; dictated letter, signed Bonaparte, to Citizen [Jean-François Aimé, Comte] Dejean, Councill...

° ° Leybourn, William - Cursus Mathematicus. Mathematical Sciences, in nine books ... With the description, construction, and use of geometrical a...

° ° Dubois - Maisonneuve, Charles - Peintures de Vases: vulgairement appetes Etrusques... vol.2 (only). title within decorated border, 78 engraved...

° ° Planta, Edward - A New Picture of Paris; or, the Stranger's Guide to the French Metropolis ....14th edition, considerably enlarged. folded fro...

° ° Pryor, Karen and Norris, Kenneth S. (editors) Dolphin Societies, num. illus. (some full page); publisher's cloth and d/wrapper. Univ. of Calif...

° ° Chapman, Abel and Buck, Walker J. - Unexplored Spain....num. photo. plates and other illus.; publisher's gilt pictorial cloth. 1910; Every, E....

° ° Norris, Charles - Etchings of Tenby....with a short account of that Town, and of the principal buildings in its neighbourhood. pictorial engra...

° ° Charlton, Lionel - The History of Whitby, and of Whitby Abbey....folded plan and 3 other plates, subcribers' list; old half calf and marbled b...

° ° Whitaker, Rev. John - The History of Manchester....2 vols. 11 plates (mostly folded, incl. plans); contemporary gilt calf, panelled spines wit...

° ° Cervantes, Miguel de - The History of Don Quixote.....illustrated by Gustave Dore. num. engraved plates and other illus.; contemp. half vellum...

° ° Pallas, Peter Simon - Travels through the Southern Provinces of the Russian Empire, in the years 1793 and 1794. Translated from the German .....

° ° Ambler, Eric - The Army of the Shadows and Other Stories. Limited Edition (of 350 numbered copies, signed by the author). publisher's printed...

° ° Hoch, Edward D. - Diagnosis: Impossible The problems of Dr. Sam Hawthorne. Limited Edition (of 300 numbered copies, signed by the author). pub...

° ° Queen, Ellery - The Detective Short Story: a bibliography. Limited Edition (of 150 numbered copies, signed by the author). publisher's cloth ...

° ° The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments....together with the Psalter or Psalms of David...title in red and black, port...

° ° Jones, Theophilus - A History of the County of Brecknock.... 2 vols. pictorial engraved titles, a folded pictorial map (outline colour), a pla...

° ° The Thousand and One Nights; or Arabian Nights' Entertainments. Translated by Edward William Lane....and illustrated by Frank Brangwyn. 6 vol...

° ° Collins, William - Memoirs of that Celebrated, Original and Eccentric Genius the late George Morland.... (lacks portrait frontis.); later 19th...

° ° Le Nain de Tillemont, Louis-Sebastien - An Account of the Life of Apollonius Tyaneus. Translated out of the French. To which are added, Some...

° ° (The Homilies) Certain Sermons or Homilies appointed to be read in Churches, in the time of the late Queen Elizabeth....And now thought fit to...

° ° (Berens, Rev. Edward) The Seven Churches on the River Cray. pictorial engraved title and 7 lithographed plates (by the author), half title; or...

° ° Grose, F - The Antiquities of England and Wales. New edition, 8 vols, 4to, contemporary diced calf, with engraved vignette title to each volum...

° ° Symonds, R.W – Furniture Making in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century England, original cloth, 1955 and Turner, L – Decorative Plasterwork, o...

° ° LEWES AND SUSSEX - Mayhew, Graham - The Monks of St. Pancras, 4to, signed, cloth in unclipped d/j, Lewes History Press, 2014; Mantell, Gideon ...

° ° Fleming, Ian - Diamonds Are Forever, 1st edition, remainder copy, outside bound by others in yellow cloth (spine and boards spotted, front boa...

A 19th century Chinese Daoist bamboo brushpot, inscribed with a poem, 13cm high ...[more]

Golf Interest. An album containing photographs, menu and autographs of British Open Winners, gathered at the 1978 Dinner for Winners of the Open C...

Mark Gerson, (b.1921). A vintage black and white photograph, Portrait of Kingsley Amis, signed by the photographer to the mount, together with Bon...